Arthur Conan Doyle: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”

“I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”

“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”

“I followed you.'

I saw no one.'

That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”

“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”

“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”

“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”

“No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”

“Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.”

“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

~ Sherlock Holmes”